How did the end of WW2 begin to shape the postwar world?
Website #1: World War II
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The world after WW2 is definitely going to be a big deal. "Wartime relations between the United States and the Soviet Union can be considered one of the high-points in the longstanding interaction between these two great powers" (Website #1). Basically after the war the allies, the US, Britain, France and Soviet Union divided Germany and other conquered lands, including the city of Berlin, sitting inside the Soviet sector of Germany, and divided it so the Eastern half was controlled by Russia and Western half by the US, Britain and France. This ended up as unraveling into the Cold War. "The alliance between the United States and the Soviet Union during World War II developed out of necessity, and out of a shared realization that each country needed the other to defeat one of the most dangerous and destructive forces of the twentieth century" (Website #1). After this, other countries were divided like North and South Korea. After the war with France in 1954, Vietnam was divided into Communist and non-Communist halves. There was a ton of tension, especially over Germany and Berlin. In 1950, North Korea invaded South Korea, and that war lasted 3 years. But the tension never goes away. The Vietnam War went on for many years, American advisers were there in the 1950's and early 60's. Combat troops in 1965-1973 and the war itself ended with North Vietnam conquering the South in 1975. So we are basically doing the same thing as before. We keep fighting. "Despite the subsequent postwar controversies and the beginning of the Cold War, nothing can diminish the importance of the wartime cooperation between the United States and the Soviet Union" (Website #1). So in the end, nothing really ever did change except the fact that we don't kill millions of innocent Jewish people for no reason. But we still fight, still have war and still try and win over land. Will this ever stop?
Website #2: The Causes and Consequences of WW2
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"In the pre-war years, the US sought at least five goals for its foreign policy: expanding American markets and investing capital in Europe; collecting the approximate $10 billion in war loans that European governments owed the US; recovering $33 billion in reparation from the German Government; limiting production of war machinery; and reaching an international agreement to outlaw war" (Website #2). Basically after the war, there are lots and lots of war repairments that everyone has to pay for. "The United States government used both propaganda and art throughout World War II to keep Americans united for the war effort, angry at a common enemy, and informed of exactly what information they wanted the American public to know" (Website #2). During and after the war, countries used propaganda still, to try and convey their people that the war was over and it was going to stay that way. There have been more wars after WW2 of course. But I don't believe that they are similar into ways that it was like WW2. I mean its a "World War" its going to be big. But no doubt we have been better than we've ever been.